Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4678dfef361061fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-08-08 16:46:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8e5d7c78e3a52afc0f0502d2c48f1ba5 SHA-1: 168252cefc918c37d2a83eeda0d8e3c826311542 SHA-256: 4678dfef361061fedb28053b93e2be1165cdfa73c051b763a45ea177a501d578
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic suggests the document's content is designed to trick users into installing malicious browser extensions or updates. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of numerous links to PDF files hosted on various websites, some of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads, points towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document's structure and embedded links suggest it is part of a larger campaign to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072adc848d68---96112765935.pdf
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f53cda055272a96202cf643fe6d57eb5/niwax.pdf
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c08faaa11bc2bddc4391d1337479c381/tedifusizosatina.pdf
    • https://cissud.com/uploads/ck_editor/files/lijigixiwo.pdf
    • http://aldobini.it/userfiles/files/83644728123.pdf
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aca531e8e08---33432851891.pdf
    • http://alessandrobelleseveterinario.eu/userfiles/files/zizimomijewodepu.pdf
    • https://aquamedicasatumare.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27584409919.pdf
    • http://phayaotechno.com/UserFiles/File/80607414860.pdf
    • http://pwr-tech.ru/userfiles/file/nazanagekixitanewisix.pdf
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fdc4ffe1415---geramu.pdf
    • http://yangs-ns.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210528040626.pdf
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbb121fcace7b7071a456392fd1b4cc3/warotegu.pdf
    • https://newtech-utm.pl/userfiles/file/vofaw.pdf
    • http://aranykoronakft.hu/userfiles/file/55614805439.pdf
    • http://susutour.com/userfile/file/90366258425.pdf
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tsl2ogom4jvb1b604kdkq92urq/xikumafivuj.pdf
    • http://ebsenglish.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/latewetewire.pdf
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q2ugbl5aajgpm7qoqugtsrr5ae/mevuredubolafiriw.pdf
    • http://eternoohydro.com/d/files/bitapatalos.pdf
    • http://baihsad.com/userfiles/files/20210706_014324.pdf
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ojpphdb56r386bjgo64r376hv4/64115541360.pdf
    • https://euroroma-bg.org/files/file/gujar.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=freepik+premium+account+trial
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ee1c.bin
f7755c5c418226b8b4d1055edc0d351e155e0d221b50237100a09840f6b3f6e0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE1C 10536 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001060a.bin
309b120570567ef4f8b822f39f6c0be165a09c56e71abf81e17f65e00ccdf447
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1060A 16932 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001323f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1323F 16792 bytes